How you can benefit from XDB workflow to get high quality results faster, save less data and share results across your entire enterprise

Speaker Biography

Torbjörn Larsson has an impressive background in aerodynamics and CFD methodology. His track record in Formula 1, most recently at Ferrari, establishes him as a preeminent CFD workflow engineer. He has been instrumental in building up the CFD department for the Sauber F1 team and has since led the CFD teams at Sauber, BMW and Ferrari to much success in Formula 1.

You will learn about methods for:

100X to 1000X Data Reduction

Effective use of remote HPC resources for both interactive and batch operations

Working with data from multiple solvers including OVERFLOW2, OpenFOAM

“Cray systems provide central computational resources at commercial, academic and government centers around the world; often serving distributed user communities. Efficient tools to analyze CFD simulation results and enable the remote user community are essential. Management, automation, and remote visualization capabilities in FieldView are a proven technology for post processing whether the data is across the room or across the country. Cray is pleased to work with Intelligent Light to ensure this is a robust and efficient solution.”

Per Nyberg, Director of Cray Business Development

This work was recently awarded the IDC HPC Innovation Excellence Award. “For the Outstanding Application of HPC for Business and Scientific Achievements."

Dr. Duque will be joined by Greg Clifford, Manufacturing Segment Manager at CRAY. Cray is partnering with Intelligent Light to help meet the data management and remote visualization demands of their clients. The material provided in this webinar is a great example of how simulation data management can be done effectively in a Cray environment.

With a goal of improved pilot training for sea-based aircraft operations, the CREATE–AV team took on the task of coupling CREATE–AV Kestrel to the Navy flight simulator CASTLE. This two-way coupling might lead to better simulation of a difficult landing environment.

The high temporal fidelity of 45 seconds at 60 files per second meant that an innovative approach would be needed to handle the data. The CREATE–AV team reached out to Intelligent Light for help. The unique workflow combined libsim and FieldView XDBs (extracts) to enable detailed animations that gave physical insight in hours rather than days.

You will learn:

Benefits of in situ post-processing

Basics of implementing an in situ workflow

How to utilize XDB extracts that are 10 to 1,000X smaller than solution data

Speaker Biographies

Jim Forsythe is an Aerospace Engineer working for the Navy at Patuxent River NAS in the Aerodynamics and Store Separation branch. He does development and quality assurance work for the DOD HPCMP Create-Air Vehicles program. He received a B.S. and M.Eng. from Cornell University, and a Ph.D. from Wichita State University. He flew KC-135s for the Air Force and taught at the Air Force Academy while on active duty. He has also worked for Cobalt Solutions, taught at UNH and UMD as an Affiliate Professor, and served as a N.H. State Senator.

Brad Whitlock is a visualization and post-processing engineer in Intelligent Light’s Applied Research Group. He is also a founding developer of VisIt, a massively parallel visualization tool designed for high performance computing environments. Brad joined Intelligent Light in 2013 to develop a hardened version of VisIt that will serve as an enabling technology for Intelligent Light’s commercial data analysis and visualization products. Prior to joining Intelligent Light, Brad spent 15 years at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory developing visualization and analysis software for HPC environments.

Interactive Exploration of High Fidelity ICE Simulations

This webinar includes a live interactive sessions with complex data. However, the webinar format requires substantial degradation of graphics performance. To give you a realistic view of interactive performance we are providing a movie of a live screen capture of an interactive session. We are also providing two high quality versions of the movies that were show during the event.

See what the FieldView user's experience looks like by downloading and viewing the following videos:

You will learn how to:

Create and analyze ICE simulations with hundreds of time steps using hundreds of thousands of simulated particles

Interactively explore this high fidelity data to improve understanding of your results

Exploit a data management strategy to make these large problems tractable

Learn how you can create and analyze ICE simulations with hundreds of time steps and hundreds of thousands of simulated particles. Interactively explore your high fidelity data to improve understanding of your results.

Attend this special webinar by Intelligent Light and Convergent Science to see how you can escape current limitations and achieve more from your CFD.

An innovative transient post-processing approach for ICE simulations

In the quest to improve simulation accuracy, and fueled by the rise of HPC, simulations are being performed on ever finer meshes and with larger number of particles. In the case of internal combustion engine CFD, which requires very long transient runs in order to reach convergence, this has become problematic due to the huge amount of data and the time it takes to review it.

This presentation will describe, through an ICE case study simulated with CONVERGE, an innovative post-processing approach that allows interactive analysis of several hundreds of time steps, containing hundreds of thousands of simulated particles. Combined with more traditional methods (transient animations, time history plots...), this interactive investigation technique will provide unprecedented insight to complex transient flows.

Please join Steve Legensky, Founder and General Manager of Intelligent Light, for a live web event “Speed Up Production CFD Workflows with Extract Post-Processing”.

This event is designed to help you achieve greater throughput of:

Standardized plots and reports

Unsteady results

Remote HPC computing

Large CFD data

Parallel computing has enabled CFD practitioners to create far more data than can be stored or accessed for post-processing and analysis, making it difficult for engineers and researchers to gain understanding via visualization, exploration and collaboration.

Mr. Legensky will present:

Techniques and customer examples that show how extract-based methods have graduated from the research realm to the production environment

Our recent success applying in situ techniques to production level workflows that scale from hundreds of cores to over 130,000 cores

The new HPC FieldView software that combines the power of open-source VisIt software with the ease-of-use and productivity of FieldView

Steve will answer questions after the presentation in a live Q&A.

Speaker Biography

Steve M. Legensky is the founder and general manager of Intelligent Light, a company that has delivered products and services based on visualization technology since 1984. He attended Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey and received a BE degree in electrical engineering in 1977 and a MS degree in mathematics in 1979. Steve’s passion is applying computer graphics and data management to difficult engineering problems. Steve is an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and has published and presented for AIAA, IEEE, ACM/SIGGRAPH and IDC.